Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)

I will make two points on that matter which has been referred to by a number of people. First, the Commission is the body that decides on compliance with competition and state-aid law. I am grateful to Commissioner Neelie Kroes who worked with our Minister for Finance and the Government generally to confirm that we were in compliance with that. Every country makes inputs in terms of the fine tuning of language, but broadly speaking we are happy with the outcome because it provides the overall framework for what we have done. The countries took different options and approaches.

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